Monthly Archives: April 2012
From The Best Schools: Seeing Past Darwin I: The Machine Metaphor
| April 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Media, News |
It’s a scandal that science journalists have been so slow to pick up on this story. For, make no mistake about it, the story is huge. more
Mathematician Granville Sewell denied right to respond to rebuttals in journal
| April 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, News, Peer review, Physics |
Once again, Darwinism’s questionable relationship to thermodynamics is the issue. more
Astronomers find new planet capable of supporting hype
| April 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Exoplanets, News |
“The planet lies in what they describe as a ‘habitable zone’, neither too near its sun to dry out or too far away which freezes it.” more
From The Best Schools: Why Head Start programs are usually a bust
| April 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Education, News |
“Low-income parents must often deal with disruptions and disorders that they did not cause.” more
Hyperskeptic Michael Shermer thinks that gravity leaks out to other universes
| April 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News |
“Nobody seems to have told Shermer that this is not an idea taken seriously by a significant number of theorists, … ” more
Dave Coppedge is back to keeping score on planet theories
| April 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
“Mars: The dry-Marsers scored more points over the wet-Marsers this month. ” more
Defining Methodological Naturalism
| April 27, 2012 | Posted by nullasalus under Intelligent Design |
It’s been a while since we had a good discussion about Methodological Naturalism. This time around, I want to start out simple: I’m asking everyone, particularly those who believe methodological naturalism is essential to science (Matzke, I’m looking at you) to define it. More below. more
Whale evolution time frame too narrow for a Darwinian process …
| April 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Darwinism, Evolution, News |
“… multiple feats of anatomical novelty, innovative engineering and genetic rewiring necessary … ” more
Billion-year-old organism is not a fungus, alga, parasite, plant or animal ….
| April 27, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Origin Of Life |
No one knows what it is and they are calling it “protozoa” for now. more
Mammalian visual system prompts talk of design, self-organization, in journal
| April 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Design inference, News, Self-Org. Theory |
“Our theory of universality in network self-organization explains how they could independently develop a common design.” more
How to promote radical skepticism
| April 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Philosophy |
Philosopher Tim McGrew offers this method. more
Telic Thoughts: Ancestral carbon mechanism points to design
| April 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Design inference, News |
There is no reason to think that “the earliest cells were rickety assemblies whose parts were constantly malfunctioning and breaking down.”If so, the project would have ended. more
Should Chuck Colson really have listened to Francis Collins on ID?
| April 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Christian Darwinism, News |
Why? more
Science is probably more fun as a work in progress anyway …
| April 26, 2012 | Posted by News under News, science education |
Will students need a universal swivel joint in their heads? more
The universe had to have a beginning, mathematicians say
| April 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Constitution, News |
“”Although inflation may be eternal in the future, it cannot be extended indefinitely to the past,’ they say. more
Hundreds of types of bacteria in 4 million-year-old cave can fight off antibiotics
| April 26, 2012 | Posted by News under horizontal gene transfer, News |
“Many microbiologists therefore suspect that nonpathogenic bacteria are acting as a vast pool of ancient resistance genes waiting to be transferred to pathogenic bacteria.” more
Is the dismissal by asserting “fallacy of personal incredulity” itself a fallacy?
| April 26, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Darwinism, Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, ID Foundations, language, Philosophy, Popular culture, Science, worldview issues and society |
Yesterday, UD’s News announced a free chart of fallacies. I thought, oh, yay, let’s download. But, once I began to look at the chart, I noticed that it presented Plato, Socrates and Aristotle in a way that seemed to mock the orthodox Christian triune concept of God. (Did it ever strike the creator of the… more
Can a paradigm in science be true?
| April 26, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Philosophy, Science |
The question might be easier to examine if we turn it around and ask, can a paradigm be false? more
Self-organization theorist James Shapiro on Tennessee academic freedom bill
| April 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, News |
In “What Is the Best Way to Deal With Supernaturalists in Science and Evolution?”(Huffington Post , April 16, 2012), University of Chicago microbiologist James Shapiro, suggests, Thirty years ago, I was at a conference in Cambridge, England, to celebrate the centennial of Darwin’s death. There, Richard Dawkins began his lecture by saying, “I will not… more
Mysterious giant fossil is 450 million years old
| April 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, News |
“The fossilized specimen, a roughly elliptical shape with multiple lobes, totaling almost seven feet in length, …” more